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PBEDfeUIDE POR GARDING MACHINES.

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EEED GUIDE EOE GAEDING MACHINES.

No. 389,133. Patented Sept. 4. 1888;

UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

STOOKTON BATES, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO 'PHE BRIDESBURG MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

FEED-GUIDE FOR CARDING-IVIACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 389,183,1ated September 4, 1888.

Application iled December l, 1887. Serial No. 256,692. (No model.)

.To all whom, it 11m-y concern: ing-machine. It is composed of a bar, c, hav- Be it known that I, STooK'roN BATEs, a citiing rows c c of guide-tubes D, through which zen of the United States, residing at Philadelthe slivers pass. I have shown only two disphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State tinct rows,which form (our distinct rows of re- 55 5 of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new ceivinglnouths; but they may be arranged in and useful Improvements in Feed-Guides for more or less rows, to suit requirements. These Carding-Machines; and I do hereby declare rows diverge, as shown, toward the creel, so the following to be a full, clear, and exact de# as to receive the slivers a at safe distances scription of the invention, such as will enable from one another, and the tubes which form 6o 1o others skilled in the art to which it appertains the middlerows ot'receivingmouthsarelonger to make and use the same. than those which form the upper and lower My invention consists in an improved guide rows of receiving-months. All of the tubes of through which the wool in the shape of slivers one row enter the bar c on the same line, and is directed into the feed-rollers of a cardthis line is parallel with the horizontal edges 65 I5 ing-machine, said guide comprising a perfoot' the bar, thus increasing the distance berated bar to which conducting-tubes are attween the receiving-mouths ofthe tubcs into tached and arranged in divergent rows radiatwhich the slivers a pass from the creel tothe ing from the meeting line or bite of the introcardingcylinder. The tubes, by being deductory feed-rollers of the carding machine, tlected as described and shown, have enough 7o 2c as will be hereinafter described and claimed. space between them at their receiving mouths The object of my invention is to prevent the to prevent the loose fibers o1' contiguous slivslivers from coming in contact with one aners in their passage to the tubes from the creel other, and thereby obstructing the passage to coming together, and those of one sliver Vfrom the feed-rollers, as in the case ot' guides of orcatching upon those of another, and thus caus- 75 25 dinary construction. ing entanglement, breakage, and loss of time,

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is with diminution of product in a given period. aperspective view ofmy improved feed-guide. The described arrangement of the tubes also Fig. 2 is a rear elevation ofthe same. Fig. 3 permits ofthe delivery endsof the tubes being is' a transverse section in the line :v of Fig. arranged so close together that in a compara` So 3o 2, showing also the introductory rolls of a tively small compass as many as, say, seventycarding-machiue. Fig. 4 is an outline side two slivers (more or less) can be introduced view cfa sliver-creel and of a front part of a to an ordinary-sized cardingsurface without carding-machine provided with my invention. danger ofthe loose bers of one sliver becom- Fig. 5 is an outline top view of the same. ing entangled with those of acontiguous sliver 85 35 The letter A in the drawings represents an at points between the creel and the tubes; ordinary sliver-creel, B a carding machine, whereas with the common construction it is and C my improved guide. not regarded practicable to present more than The creel A holds the sliver-balls, c, delivforty-eight ends or slivers to a like-sized ered by carding-machines ofaprevious coarser carding-surlace as that which I employ for 9o 4o class. The number of sliver-balls in a creel seventy-two ends or slivers, because there is varies between forty-eight and one hundred not space enough left between the slivers in and twenty, (more or less,)and the said slivertheir passage from the creel to the points balls being of considerable size, they, when where they enterreceivingpassages arranged mounted in the creel t'or unwinding, occupy in the common way, while insuring their de- 95 45 a great deal of room vertically and horizoulivery directly to the introductory feed-rolls. tally, and the slivers ct unwound from said 'Ihe tubes at their mouths are formed with balls are drawn at different angles toward the smooth beads d, which are rounded off on their feed-rollers bbof the carding-machine, as seen inner sides, as well as on their outer, and in Figs. 3, 4, and 5. through which the slivers glide without undue roc 5o In front of the feed-rollers my feed-guide C friction. The delivery-end portions d of the is suitably attached to the frame of the cardtwo rows of tubes illustrated are inserted into holes c2 of the bar c, said holes radiating from the meeting line or bite of the feedrolls. The holes are of sli ghtl y-tapering form, so that the tubes can be easily inserted into or removed therefrom' by hand in case short tubes are to be exchanged for long ones, or vice versa.

The guides in some cases, as heretofore used` consist of iron combs similar to reeds in the battens of looms, between the teeth of which lo the slivers pass toward the feed-rollers of the cardingmachine. These teeth are very closely arranged, and the slivers pass through them in very close proximity to one another, the fuzzy structure of the same frequently causing I5 two or more to combine and unite before their arrival at the guide, and thus clog said guide and become torn, so as to disturb the uniform feed of the machine. Efforts made with a bar perforated simply with round holes have 2o proved as futile as those with the comb for the same reason; but with the aid of the diverging tubes D, arranged on a bar, c, placed close ro the feedrolls, the approaching slivers can be \,`kept at such distances from one another be- 'tween the creel and the guides and delivered so close to the feedrolls that, no matter how loose or fuzzy they may be, they cannot unite before they arrive between the feed-rollers, and thus a uniform and uninterrupted feed to 3c ythe earding-machine is secured.

It willbe seen from the foregoing description and accompanyingdrawingsthat theimproved guide C can be placed closeup to the introductory feed-rolls b b of the eardingmachine, and

3 5 thatthe tubesDand the holes c? are so arranged in vertically-radiatin g rows that the slivers are kept separate from each other between the creel and the guide C, and are conducted by the guide-tuhes D and holes c'l almost imme- 40 diately between the said feed-rolls. It will also be seen that while the delivery ends of v both the longer and shorter rows of tubes on either side of the longitudinal meeting line of the feedrolls enter holes c2 radially from the bite of the feed-rolls and on a line which is straight, the outer or receiving ends of these rows of tubes are on a zigzag line on account of their being divergent on different angles, and said zigzag line is also undulating on account of the tubes, Whether radiating upward 5o or downward -withirespect to the meeting line or bite of the feed-rolls, being made of different lengths, as shown.

1. In combination with feed-rolls of a cardiugmaehine, the guide C, provided with tubes D, arranged in rows radiating from the meeting line or bite of said feed-rolls, substantially as described.

2. In combination with the feed-rolls of a 5c carding-maehine, the guide C, consisting of a bar, c, having holes c?, and tubes D, of different lengths, radiating on different angles from the meeting line or bite of the said feed-rolls, substantially as described.

3. In combination with the feed-rolls ofa carding-machine, the removable interchangeable divergent tubes D, made of taper form, in combination with the bar c, having tapered holes c, radiating from the bite of the said 7o feed-rolls, substantially as and for the purpose described. v

4. The bar c, provided with tubes D, arrangedin rows cc, the delivery ends of which enter the holes in the bar on straight lines, 75 while their mouths form zigzag lines, substantiall y as described.

5. The bar c, provided with tubes D, arranged in rows c c", the mouth portions of said tubes forming zigzag lines and nndulat 8o ing, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

S'IOCK'ION BATES.

Vitnesses:

WM. N. STRONG, J. WILLis MARTIN. 

